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Etymology of Persia
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| Starting from c. 600 BC, the Greeks began to use the name Persis for Cyrus the
Great's empire. Persis was taken from Old Persian Pars or Pārsa - the name of the
people whom Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty first ruled (before he
inherited or conquered other Persian Kingdoms) and amongst whom he is counted.
This tribe gave its name to the region where they (ethnic Persians) lived (the
modern day province is called Fars/Pars). |
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In Latin, the name for the land was Persia. The name "Persia" until 1935 was the
"official" name of Iran in the world, but Persian people inside their country
since the Sassanid period have called it "Iran" meaning "the land of Aryans", the
older version of which had been "Aryānām" (the genitive plural of the word Aryan,
a cognate form of which is seen in "Airyanem Vaejah" ) as seen in ancient Persian
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